Primordial Star Scripture

"Hall Spirit, where do we carry out the third-stage examination?"

Ye Chen, opening his eyes, rose from his seated meditation stance.

He reined in his aura, making him appear just like an ordinary youth.

But after three years of transformation, Ye Chen's physical body and True Qi techniques had become unimaginably powerful!

Indeed, he could be called the foremost among those in the Rotating Pill Realm!

"Ye Chen, the third-stage examination takes place within a special space. You have completed the foundational 810 forms of the Icebound Divine Body, which qualifies you to enter this special space," the Sub Palace Hall Spirit said to Ye Chen with a smile.

As the Sub Palace Hall Spirit spoke, a pristine white snowflake drifted down from the ceiling of the Icebound Temple Sub Palace.

Instead of falling to the ground, this snowflake remained suspended in the void.

"This snowflake is the special space," the Sub Palace Hall Spirit explained.

A snowflake?

A special space?

Ye Chen had long heard that every plant and every tree could constitute a world, involving immensely powerful Space Laws.

But even the Heavenly Saints or Void Sky True Gods, their created spaces were always marked with traces of Space Laws. The places Ye Chen had entered, like the Thousand Lotus Cave Abode and the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, all had dedicated entrances.

However, this snowflake looked exactly like a real snowflake, and Ye Chen had not expected that it, too, would be imbued with special Space Laws!

Having witnessed the Time Law technique of a hundredfold increase in the time flow rate, Ye Chen was now beholding the Space Law technique of the Icebound God King.

Indeed, a God King Level technique was inconceivable!
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"Ye Chen, activate the 800th form 'Heavenly Gate Acupoint Divine Light' from the foundational 810 forms of the Icebound Divine Body, and you will sense the means to enter this snowflake," the Sub Palace Hall Spirit instructed Ye Chen on how to access the special space within the snowflake.

Ye Chen nodded.

Having mastered all the foundational 810 forms of the Icebound Divine Body, he was naturally extremely familiar with them. The 800th form was precisely the secret technique for infusing divine light into the Heavenly Gate Acupoint. Unexpectedly, this acupoint was connected to the special space within the snowflake.

With a thought, divine light of marvellous quality suddenly burst forth from the Heavenly Gate Acupoint on Ye Chen's forehead.

As the light erupted, Ye Chen felt the snowflake floating in the void begin to rotate. Following that, the snowflake emitted a hazy light.

The moment the hazy light touched Ye Chen's body, he felt an odd tug that pulled his physical body in, and in an instant, he found himself within the snowflake in the void.

Within the snowflake lay the special space.

It was a world of ice and snow with vast snowy expanses everywhere.

This scene closely resembled the landscapes of the nine Ice Domain Divine Stars Ye Chen had seen, exuding a sense of purity, vastness, and desolation.

As Ye Chen surveyed this icy world within the special space, the voice of the Sub Palace Hall Spirit reached his ears again: "Ye Chen, within this special space, you will face nine Ice Seal Guards left by the master."

"These nine Ice Seal Guards are nine War Beasts. Since our master was injured, they have been sealed in this space and haven't emerged in a long time."

"Nine War Beasts?" Ye Chen's eyebrows twitched.

He too was curious about what a War Beast sealed by a Divine King would look like.

"These nine Ice Seal Guards, you may address them as 'Bing Shiyi,' 'Bing Shier,'... 'Bing Shijiu.' All nine possess near late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm strength. Bing Shijiu is the weakest, while Bing Shiyi is the strongest."

"Of course, when they battle you, they will not use their late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm strength. If they did, you would certainly not be able to contend with them. They will adjust their power to what you faced during the first-stage examination, as sensed by the master's techniques, plus the progress you should have made during three years of cultivation, finally suppressing it to the level of combat power required for your battle."

"Ye Chen, in the first stage of the assessment at the bottom of the Nine Nether Pond, your strength was that of an average early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warrior. Master has set the requirement that a genius should increase their strength by two major levels in three years. Therefore, the nine Icebound Guardians you are to battle should have strength around the mid-stage of the Heavenly Saint Realm," the Hall Spirit explained.

Ye Chen nodded.

When he first entered the Nine Nether Pond, his strongest trump card, the Life-bound Flying Sword, was already damaged.

Relying on the damaged Life-bound Flying Sword, Ye Chen could unleash strength that overwhelmed early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warriors, but without it, his strength at the time indeed belonged to that of an average early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm strongman, just as the Hall Spirit had said.

This third-stage assessment unexpectedly demanded that Ye Chen directly combat Icebound Guardians whose strength was suppressed to the mid-stage of the Heavenly Saint Realm, a requirement that was exceedingly high.

It should be known that many early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warriors might not even reach the mid-stage even after cultivating for a hundred or a thousand years!

Yet the Divine King required that after three years of cultivating the Icebound Divine Body, the candidates should be able to battle opponents whose strength had increased by two major levels, asking Ye Chen to leap from an average early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warrior, bypassing peak-level early-stage ones, and reach the level where he could combat mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warriors.

This requirement was definitely demanding that the candidates have an extremely rapid cultivation speed, high comprehension power, and powerful methods!

"What do you think, Ye Chen, are you confident in battling opponents at the mid-stage level of the Heavenly Saint Realm?" the Sub Palace Hall Spirit asked Ye Chen.

If it were someone else, claiming to be able to go from ordinary early-stage Heavenly Saint Realm combat power to facing mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm opponents within three years, few would dare to make such a bold statement.

But Ye Chen was different.

Ye Chen was a supreme talent who cultivated with the Taiyuan Divine Pill and the Five Great Divine Arts, and it took him less than two years to complete the 810 basic motions of the Icebound Divine Body!

Both the Primordial Star Scripture and the Icebound Divine Body were Cultivation Techniques that were absolutely unparalleled in the entire Barbaric Wilderness Continent. Even among countless young geniuses in the starry sky, few were confident they could fully comprehend these Cultivation Techniques!

Although Ye Chen had only cultivated up to the third chapter of the Primordial Star Scripture, the Taiyuan Chapter, and the 810 basic motions of the Icebound Divine Body, he had already undergone a transformation.

A transformation from three years of arduous cultivation!

A qualitative leap in strength!

Ye Chen's current strength, even if not enough to sweep through the mid-stage of the Heavenly Saint Realm, or defeat true peak-level mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warriors, he felt that he was already able to combat ordinary mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm warriors!

"Lord Hall Spirit, let me give it a try. After three years of cultivation, I haven't actually tested my true combat strength yet," Ye Chen said to the Sub Palace Hall Spirit with a smile.

Ye Chen also wanted to see just how formidable he had become.

If he could really defeat several mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm strongmen, then once Ye Chen left this Sub Palace of the Icebound Temple, he would have much stronger confidence in facing the potential great wars that could erupt in the Western Wilderness and the Southern Territory.

After all, for so many years in the Western Wilderness, no mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm expert had emerged since the founder of the sect had died!

At this time, Ye Chen didn't know that the two Heavenly Saints of the Western Wilderness were already dead, nor was he aware of the greater threats that were about to befall the land of the thirteen countries of the Southern Territory.

Seeing Ye Chen's relaxed demeanor, the Sub Palace Hall Spirit also felt relieved.

It knew that this young man before it must have some special methods to be so relaxed in preparing for the third-stage assessment.

"Alright, since you are ready, I will now release the seals on the nine Icebound Guardians," said the Sub Palace Hall Spirit. "Ye Chen, prepare to battle these nine Icebound Guardians."

"These nine Icebound Guardians will have their strength suppressed to the mid-stage level of the Heavenly Saint Realm. If you can defeat them, you will successfully pass this third-stage assessment, completely completing all three assessments of the God King's Legacy."

"At that time, these nine late-stage Heavenly Saint Levels Icebound Guardians will also follow you and protect you, ensuring your safe entrance to the main hall of the Icebound Temple."

"Ye Chen, inside the main hall of the Icebound Temple, there are still three even more powerful Icebound Guardians sealed; they are Bing Yi, Bing Wu, and Bing Qi. Those three Icebound Guardians exceed the strength of these nine late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm Guardians in the Sub Palace, reaching the True God level! Especially Bing Yi, among the Void Sky True Gods, he is an absolute standout, the strongest warrior under the master's command back then!"

"They were not used by the master back then when he encountered an unsolvable crisis, unlike the other Void Sky True God Guards who have all fallen. Ye Chen, if you can pass this third-stage assessment, in addition to these nine late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm Icebound Guardians, when you enter the main hall of the Icebound Temple in the future, you might even gain the protection of three Void Sky True God Level Icebound Guardians!"

"Ye Chen, for your future, give your all to break through this third stage of the assessment!"